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Complaints from residents of Boston that the army plane which gave up nightly to secure weather data has been disturbing their sleeping hours are scheduled to be answered because of new apparatus developed at the Blue Hill Observatory...
...present the only drawback to the general use of the radio balloon in place of the airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
...order of the operas so that Gotterddmmerung could be given on the Saturday it would not conflict with a big football game.* Graciously, he staggered performances so that stars could keep appointments elsewhere. Reiner clashed only once with Stage Director Armando Agnini, over a new $1,800 steam apparatus for Gotterddmmerung to help Valhalla go up realistically in flames & smoke. The conductor barred the steam because it hissed too loud. Pleaded Agnini : "But, Maestro, there will be a scandal if we don't have the steam. The audience is expecting it." Flashed Reiner: "There will be another scandal...
Consider, said Dr. Gregory, the horse. The legs are like towers at each end of a bridge, the backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs...
...liked his other jailers, hated Lowe from the start. He believed, or pretended to believe, that Lowe was going to kill him. Always bluffing, Napoleon drove Lowe to distraction, created parliamentary crises in London, steered his ill-assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle...